[PGR88]

I live overseas (in Asia) and 100% of the people I meet in the real world here (and anywhere outside of NY, DC, or SF) say it is clear that Rauf is MOCKING the USA with the mosque at ground-zero. I am also told if it goes forward, this mosque will be an everlasting JOKE on the USA, and a real sign of weakness, division, and self-hatred within the USA.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

it is clear that Rauf is MOCKING the USA with the mosque at ground-zero.

You can see it in his face! He's mocking the U.S. and he's loving it!

The entire muslim world can see that, as much as regular Americans are against the mosque, Rauf and the jihadis now have the U.S. president and the Mayor of NYC in their pockets.

It is obvious that Obama is supremely pro-muslim (to the exclusion of any other bloc), but how the muslims bought off Bloomie is still a mystery.

[Verginius Rufus]

I think they understand it better than our elites--there's no other reason why the Muslims are so insistent on having it at that location.

Imam Rauf should have tried to become more American and taken the last name Kramden. Rauf Kramden..."To the moon god, Alice!"

[Constitutions Grandchild]

I agree with the 100% of the people you have met in the real world, there. Without stooping to the level of irrational acts, we have got to respect ourselves. Respect begets respect. We're losing the war of ideology if we all take matters into our own hands, acting independently. We must be a unified, dignified, respectful force of Americans, locked arm in arm and solid. Those who wish to destroy us use our laws against us. We were meant to be a nation of laws and respect for each other. Somehow, we have to regain the high moral ground. We started there, let's get back up the hill and plant the flag.

The Imam Rauf needs to come clean and needs to prove something to America — sorry, but that's the way it is. If we can't vet his background, then we can't give him carte blanche. Every single main line religious organization in the US has a hierarchy that governs its deeds, message and actions. There is some accountable organization that can and will be sued if things get out of hand. That is the problem with every "private revelation" of the gospels or verses. There is nothing that guides it. Where is his organization, where and how does his funding come, what governing body is the sole interpreter of his “verses”? All these questions are unanswered.

He can only be judged by what we know of him and right now, it's not looking too favorable. I don't know of any reasonable human being who would allow the possibility of toppling a civilization or country without the necessary investigation of motive and means. Cooler heads must prevail.